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c~lz.lj- avvG - I ~ -7 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 17, 2009 <br />Action Agenda , <br />Item No. ~- r <br />SUBJECT: First Reading: Extension of the Ordinance Granting Emergency Services <br />Franchise and Agreements to Orange EMS & Rescue Services, Inc. and <br />Technical Rescue Services, Inc. <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />County Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />EMS Services Franchise Agreements <br />• Orange EMS & Rescue Squad, <br />Inc. <br />• Technical Rescue Services, Inc. <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Montes de Oca, Emergency <br />Services, 245-6100 <br />Annette M. Moore, Staff Attorney, <br />245- 2317 <br />PURPOSE: To consider adopting on first reading the extension of the EMS Franchise <br />Agreements by Ordinance of the two active rescue squads in the County: Orange EMS & <br />Rescue Squad, Inc. and Technical Rescue Services, Inc. d/b/a South Orange Rescue Squad <br />under the same terms and conditions as the current EMS franchise agreements until March 31, <br />2010. <br />BACKGROUND: On December 6 and 14, 2004, the Board adopted by Ordinance ambulance <br />franchise agreements for Orange EMS and Rescue Services, Inc. and Technical Rescue <br />Services, Inc. The franchise agreements are set to expire on December 14, 2009. North <br />Carolina law established a public hearing notice/scheduling requirement related to the granting <br />of ambulance franchises. The purpose of the public hearing is to help the BOCC find if the <br />franchise is "necessary to assure the provision of adequate and continuing ambulance services <br />and to preserve, protect, and promote the public health, safety, and welfare." The Board held a <br />public hearing on November 16, 2004, and as a result granted the franchises to the two rescue <br />squads. <br />North Carolina law also provides that "no ordinance making a grant, renewal, extension, or <br />amendment of any franchise may be finally adopted until it has been passed at two regular <br />meetings of the board of commissioners" and that "no such grant, renewal, extension, or <br />amendment may be made except by ordinance." NCGS §153A-46 <br />Emergency Services with the assistance of the County Attorney's Office is in the process of <br />making updates to "An Ordinance Regulating Emergency Medical, First Responder and Rescue <br />Service and Granting of Franchise and Contracts to the Operators In the County of Orange" <br />